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  From: Michael Firkins <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
  To  : bmonten@adelaide.on.net
  Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:23:24 +1030

Re: Help with IDE Travan tape drive

Hi.

Hmm. isn't /dev/hdb a block device and tape like /dev/st(x) character devices ?

Michael

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:49:15 +1030, "bmonten" <bmonten@adelaide.on.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>     I'm trying to load a Travan TapeStor 8gB (ATAPI) on RH5.2. The drive is
> detected at boot time, and assigned to /dev/hdb. I pointed /dev/tape to it,
> but mt status still gives errors.
>
>     The boot comes up with:
>     hdb Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE drive, DMA
>     ide at 0x1f0-0x3f6 on irq 14
>
>     the 'mt status' comes up with
>     ide-tape: hdb: I/O error, pc=1, key=2, asc=3a, ascq=0
>     ide-tape: Rewinding tape failed
>     /dev/tape: Input/output error
>
>     Interestingly, when I ran the Travan utilities on it, it expected the
> drive to have an IRQ of 15, which is the video. The drive's actually 14.
> When I attached the drive to secondary master instead of primary slave
> (changing the jumpers on the drive to reflect this), the boot process came
> up with "ide controller" at irq 14. The machine has on-board IDE.
>
>     Any suggestions ?
>
>
>
> Brett Monten
>
>
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